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A joint investigation led to Monday’s arrest of a Jacksonville man in a sexual-battery case of a minor in Punta Gorda.

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement regional centers in Tampa Bay and Jacksonville arrested Michael Scott Carter, 42, on one count of capital sexual battery of a victim younger than 12.

FDLE agents began investigating Carter in late 2013 after the Department of Homeland Security was targeting him in a child pornography operation.

After his wife separated from Carter, she informed agents that the victim recently told her he started sexually molesting her in 1999 when she was in the sixth grade. She said he would first rub her back and then said he “knew something that would make her feel better,” according to the arrest affidavit.

Carter is in the Duval County jail with no bail. His case will be prosecuted by the 20th Circuit State Attorney’s Office, the FDLE said.